Architecture Notes
Event ID 797082
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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ARCHITECT: Charles Wilson (1849-52)
Situated on an elevated site, square block topped with large 'pudding basin' dome.
Interior has grand central octagonal hall.
(NS 4770 6402) The John Neilson Institution is a single-storeyed building of ashlar in round-arched Italian style with a pedimented three-arch entrance. It has a fine elongated, flat-topped centre dome over a notable central hall. Charles Wilson, architect 1849. Plans are held by NMRS.
SDD List 1963
Now converted into multi-ownership flats.
2000
Surveyed in 2000 as part of the Survey of Historic Schools.